Educated both in classical Tibetan system and Cambridge University, Thupten Jinpa has been the principal English translator to H.H. the Dalai Lama for over two decades.

Jinpa is an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University, Montreal, and the president of the Institute of Tibetan Classics. He is also a founding member of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE), Stanford University, where he was the main author of CCARE?s eight-week Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) program. Currently, Jinpa is the Chairman of the Mind and Life Institute, an organization dedicated to promoting dialogues and collaborations between contemporary science and contemplative insights and perspectives.

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TEDxSanDiego 2012 (grayscale photos) [512 photos] Oak Creek Trail sponsored Tedx San Diego 2012. Rachel's parents flew up to take care of the kids and we spent a long weekend in San Diego attending the conference together.

These are my photos from the event, in black & white. Higher-resolution copies of these images are available from the TEDxSanDiego flickr account.

Description: photo attribution: sean dreilinger http://durak.org Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D. Mind and Life Institute http://www.mindandlife.org/ Educated both in classical Tibetan system and Cambridge University, Thupten Jinpa has been the principal English translator to H.H. the Dalai Lama for over two decades. Jinpa is an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University, Montreal, and the president of the Institute of Tibetan Classics. He is also a founding member of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE), Stanford University, where he was the main author of CCARE?s eight-week Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) program. Currently, Jinpa is the Chairman of the Mind and Life Institute, an organization dedicated to promoting dialogues and collaborations between contemporary science and contemplative insights and perspectives.

Image Description: photo attribution: sean dreilinger http://durak.org Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D. Mind and Life Institute http://www.mindandlife.org/ Educated both in classical Tibetan system and Cambridge University, Thupten Jinpa has been the principal English translator to H.H. the Dalai Lama for over two decades. Jinpa is an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University, Montreal, and the president of the Institute of Tibetan Classics. He is also a founding member of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE), Stanford University, where he was the main author of CCARE’s eight-week Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) program. Currently, Jinpa is the Chairman of the Mind and Life Institute, an organization dedicated to promoting dialogues and collaborations between contemporary science and contemplative insights and perspectives.